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Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> writes:

>> So what do you think about removing the alignments, for structure
>> members and stack parameters ? Does it break some compatibility ?

Alignment is part of the ABI.  If you change it you are creating an
incompatible ABI.

Andreas.

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